Claim · model-written summary
Several traditional Bromus sections were monophyletic.
- Outcome
- several traditionally recognized sections are monophyletice0
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Verbatim
e0“several traditionally recognized sections are monophyletic, but sect. Bromopsis is not”
t0“grass genus Bromus”
Title
Molecular systematic studies in commelinid monocots
Saarela, Jeffery Michael cIRcle (University of British Columbia) 2011. doi:10.14288/1.0100351
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Observation Parsimony and likelihood phylogenetic inferences were generally congruent.
- Observation Commelinales and Zingiberales are sister taxa.
- Observation Positions of Arecales and Dasypogonaceae remained unclear.
- Observation Commelinales contains two stated family clades.
- Observation Philydrella is sister to the rest of Philydraceae.
- Observation Poales contains the stated cyperid clade.
- Observation Poales contains the stated core clade with graminid and restiid branches.
- Observation Ecdeiocoleaceae was moderately supported as sister to Poaceae in densely sampled analyses.
- Observation Mayacaceae placement differed between parsimony and likelihood analyses.
- Observation Rapateaceae belong to a clade including all Poales except Bromeliaceae and Typhaceae.
- Observation Basal positions of Bromeliaceae and Typhaceae in Poales were unresolved.
- Observation Anomochlooideae and the BEP clade were strongly supported.
- Observation Anomochlooideae, Pharoideae and Puelioideae are successive sister groups of remaining grasses.
- Observation Bambusoideae and Pooideae are sister taxa.
- Observation Accelerated plastid substitution rate in Poaceae is shared with most Poales lineages.
- Observation Bromopsis section was not monophyletic.
- Observation Plastid and nuclear linkage groups showed some incongruence in Bromus.
- Observation Hydatellaceae were placed outside commelinids and monocots.
- Observation Hydatellaceae were placed as sister to water lilies, corroborated by nuclear data and morphology.